1. Reduction of Background in Observation of W Decay Using the Forward Vertex (FVTX) detector at PHENIX Abraham Meles New Mexico State University APS April Meeting 2013 April 13 - April 16 Denver, CO

2. DSSV Global Fit -- arXiv:1112.0904v1 [hep-ph] 5 Dec 2011 Motivation 2

3. Forward rapidity limitBackward rapidity limit W+W+ W - where Θ is the lepton decay angle in the partonic center-of-mass system, 3 W Single Spin Asymmetry

4. PHENIX Forward Muon Spectrometer 4 Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment at RHIC North: 1.2<|η|<2.4 South: 1.2<|η|<2.2 Azimuthal: Ф=2π Muon Tracker (MuTr): inside magnet to find tracks and measure momentum Muon Identifier (MuId) :  /hadron separation (More in Darshana Perera’s talk. Session L9 Sun 3:54 pm) RPC1 RPC3 MuTr MuId

5. Silicon Forward Vertex Detector (FVTX) FVTX covers 1.2 < |η| < 2.4, 2π in φ Each arm contains 4 discs, Each disc contains 96 “wedges” made of Silicon mini-strips. 1.1 Million strips (75 μm pitch in radial, 3.75 o in φ ). 5 In 2012 pp collision PHENIX recorded integrated luminosity of 30 (pb) -1 |z| < 30 cm vertex. Over 90% of FVTX operational during 510 GeV p-p

6. W  muon at forward W Measurement 6 FVTX expected to improve analysis power by;  Better resolution and dca_r measurement (isolate heavy flavor from W)  Combined FVTX+MuTr+MuID track matching.  Isolation cut: : suppress hadrons from jet (More in Darshana Perera’s talk. Session L9 Sun 3:54 pm) Run 11 data with signal and background simulation

7. Strategy for initial analysis Strategy based on 2011 run analysis. Identify good track matching variables of MuTr/MuID and FVTX using signal simulation. –Δr fvtx/ Δθ fvtx/ Δφ fvtx: radius/theta/phi residual between MuTr and FVTX track –DG0/DDG0: distance/angle between the projected MuTr track and the MuID road at the gap 0 z position. –dca r MuTr: distance of closest approach of MuTr track and vertex Develop selection criteria that keep 99.5%, 97%, 95% and 90% of signal for each variable at p T =10 GeV/c Apply the cut for high p T events (p T >10 GeV/c) Other promising FVTX parameters like Isolation cut, χ2 fvtx are being studied 7 e.g. Δr fvtx for W simulation, open bottom 2012 run data

8. 8 Improve the purity of the W candidate single muons (tight cut) Simulation None DG0 DDG0 dca r mutr Δr fvtx Δφ fvtx Δθ fvtx

9. 2012 data (as a background) 9 None DG0 DDG0 dca r mutr Δr fvtx Δφ fvtx Δθ fvtx Keeping most of the signals, while rejecting/filtering out backgrounds

10. Summary  In addition to (SI)DIS experiments, sea-quark polarized distribution can be studied using W Production Asymmetry in pp collision.  2012 – FVTX collected its first commissioning and physics data - analysis in progress.  FVTX parameters combined with MuTr and MuId add more tracking information and reduce backgrounds while having high efficiency on the signals. 10

11. Backup 11 ___ W ___ Z ____ open bottom None DG0 DDG0 Δφ fvtx Δθ fvtx Δr fvtx dca r mutr χ 2 fvtxmutr

12. Backup 12

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14. Delta phi 14

15. 15 η μ- η μ+ RHICBOS 2011, L = 25.5pb -1, P =50% L = 300pb-1, P =55%, S/B =3.0

16. Past studies: run11 analysis strategy to improve the purity of the W candidate single muons using mutr and rpc variables 16

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18. Xiaorong Wang, RBRC, June, 2012 18 η μ- η μ+ 2011, L = 25.5pb -1, P =50% L = 300pb -1, P =55%, S/B =3.0 FVTX will make big contribution on background reduction for |z| <10cm! RHICBOS

19. Parton distribution function (pdf)--probability of scattering off of a parton carrying a particular fraction of the proton’s momentum Polarized pdf--the difference in probability between scattering off of a parton with one spin state vs. the other –Still as a function of the momentum fraction (“Bjorken-x”) Magenta 19

20. Optimal selection criteria at pT=10GeV/c from Simulation based on ref run 367593 Optimal selection criteria VariableArmCharge99.50%97.50%95%90% DG0NorthPositive10.5646.7645.8524.778 DDG0NorthPositive4.2423.0662.8142.394 dca_rNorthPositive8.6583.6662.731.794 dr_fvtxNorthPositive6.932.972.0461.386 dphi_fvtxNorthPositive0.12540.0770.06560.0518 d_theta_fvtxNorthPositive0.03950.02550.02250.0185 chi2_fvtxmutrNorthPositive12.116.885.46254.0375 20